Instead I would have killed off Sarek (sorry, Sarek) and had Spock angst about that and be all "DADDY NEVER LOVED ME WHYYY" until Amanda slapped some sense into him. And then at the end of movie Amanda would team up with Spock Prime to convince Spock not to be an idiot and stay on the Enterprise while the two of them worked together to rebuild Vulcan. IT WOULD BE AMAZING.

Yes, it would. it really would.

Also, thank heaven there are other people on my flist who think Quinto's Spock is nowhere near as sexy as Nimoy's (even when I'm writing rebootverse, I still hear Nimoy, not Quinto).